F1 Madness

TEAM REPRESENTATIVES: Franz TOST (Toro Rosso) Monisha KALTENBORN (Sauber) Federico GASTALDI (Lotus) Graeme LOWDON (Manor) Paul MONAGHAN (Red Bull Racing) PRESS CONFERENCE Q: A question to you all. The tender document for a commercially available Formula One engine has gone out – what do you think of the idea, in principle? Franz TOST: I think […]

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Williams Valtteri Bottas was handed a 3-place grid penalty and two penalty points on his super license for overtaking Felipe Nasr under red flag conditions. The red flags were brought out after McLaren’s Fernando Alonso stopped on track after an engine failure in Free Practice 2. Bottas overtook Sauber’s Felipe Nasr between Turn 5 and […]

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Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo will take a 10-place grid drop after an engine change. This engine change comes after Red Bull decided to take the upgraded engine from Renault after putting off the decision for some time. Renault have spent 11 of their 12 development tokens on the engine. Despite promises from Renault, Ricciardo remains […]

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Manor Formula 1 Team’s Sporting Director Graeme Lowdon has confirmed on Friday afternoon that he will leave the team at the end of the season with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix being his final outing with the team. It was reported last month at the Russian Grand Prix that Lowdon and Team Principal John Booth […]

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Nico Rosberg ended of Friday’s 2nd Free Practice session on top of the time sheets ahead of Mercedes Team mate Lewis Hamilton for the Brazilian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace. Rosberg set a time of 1:12.385 which seen him go almost half a second clear of Hamilton who clocked in the second […]

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton topped the timing sheets in the first free practice session for the Brazilian grand prix. The one-a-half hour session got underway with the track temperature soaring towards the 40 degree centigrade mark. The track surface provided a low level of grip for the drivers as they re-familiarized themselves with the famous […]

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